Improvisation

Improvisation: Vertical Videos Offer iPad Users a New Experience

Christoph A. Geiseler | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Aesthetics, New Media, India, Insights, Vertical Videos, Media Tips, Improvisation, Filmmaking Technique, Filmmaking, Ipad Video, Media News

Smartphones, tablets, and rotating monitors make it possible for users to watch videos in a vertical format that was never possible on conventional screens. Here are 10 tips for filmmakers who want to produce vertical videos.

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Improvisation Lives In Brooklyn

Christoph A. Geiseler | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Mima Brooklyn, Group Improvisation, Communication, Mima Academy, Improvisation, New York News

The most important lesson about group improvisation that we teach at the MIMA Academy is that in order to succeed, individuals need to remove their egos from the creative process and find ways to enrich the community-at-large.

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How to Kick Yeahbut

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mike Bonifer, Agreement, Business Education, Improvisation, Gamechangers, Business, Improvisation for Business, Yeahbut, Yeahbutting, Yes But, Scenes, Theater, Business News

A business narrative, like a theater performance, consists of a series of scenes. These scenes can often go on for extended periods of time, and take...

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Revolution 2.0

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Hosni Mubarak, Wael Ghonim, Cnn, Politics, Mike Bonifer, Improvisation, Gamechangers, Improvisation for Business, Google, Networked World, World News

Wael Ghonim, Google's marketing manager for the Middle East and North Africa, had been held captive by the Egyptian government for 12 days. Recently...

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The Importance Of Play: It's More Than Just Fun And Games

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

Modern technology reveals that play lights up the brain in such desired areas as clarity and memory. Common sense tells us that if we've been encouraged to play as a child, beginner's mind comes more naturally as an adult.

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Social Media Week: Shift Will Happen

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexico City, Alan Alda, Milan, Upright Citizens Brigade, Improvisation, Usc, Gamechangers, The Buried Life, Social Media Week LA, Social Media Week, The New Agency, Buenos Aires, Mtv, Bogata, Social Media, Media News

For Social Media Week 2010, five cities will host a week-long series of free-admission events that will include workshops, panels, performances and games designed to explore the subject of social media.

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Second City Performer Hired As 'Saturday Night Live' Writer

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saturday Night Live, Second City Chicago, Improv, Io Theater, Tom Flanigan, Tom Flanigan SNL, Lorne Michaels, Second City, Chicago Comedy, Improvisation, Chicago News

Lorne Michaels of "Saturday Night Live" made several trips to Chicago this month--recruiting performers from Second City and iO theater to bring back ...

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The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Game

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Seeking Alpha, Mike Bonifer, Debt, Viola Spolin, Improvisation, Growth, Business, Gamechangers, Ellen Brown, Economy, Sustanability, Goldman Sachs, Go Loco, Laurence Fishburne, Business News

The game played by Goldman Sachs and all the predatory satellites in its system goes beyond crooked. It's criminal. And worse than criminal, it is a crime that can't be prosecuted.

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How to Win in Afghanistan

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Objective, Connie Duckworth, Strategy, Improvisation, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, Environment, National Security, Ahmadinejad, U.S. Military, Arzu, Gary Brooks Faulkner, Stanley McChrystal, Operation Invicible Harold, Taliban, Viola Spolin, World News

This is an analysis of the Afghanistan War through the lens of improvisation. Improvisation isn't inherently comedic. As conceived by the godmother of modern improvisation, Viola Spolin, it is the practice of spontaneous communication and fast learning.

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CLASSICAL CONDUCTING: One Conductor's Notes to Self

wsj.com | PIA CATTON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lawrence Morris, Improvisation, Nublu, Arts News

When you go to a concert, you typically have some notion of what you're going to hear, and your brain shifts into a relaxed gear. When you go to hear...

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Vijay Iyer's Life in Music: "Striving is the Backstory..." (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Vijay Iyer brings rare stuff to jazz piano, starting with a Brahmin Indian name and heritage, and a Yale degree in physics. Gujarati stick dances and ...

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McChrystal Method - Script Coverage

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 000 Troops, 40, Pentagon, Afghan War, Stanley McChrystal, A Christmas Carol, Improvisation, Disney, Gamechangers, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan, Politics News

A character like Stanley McChrystal cannot afford to show vulnerability to his enemies, and by enemies I mean anyone who would prevent The 40,000 from going into production with him as its star.

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Ten Plays in One Night

Paul Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Theatre, Acting, Sketchbook, Comedy, Collaboraction, Improvisation, Chicago News

Collaboraction's immersive, accessible, vibrant, interdisciplinary, multiracial, multigenerational Sketchbook festival of 19 plays, each 7 minutes or less, is definitely not to be missed.

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Improviser in Chief

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Games, Improviser in Chief, Tim Geithner, David Brooks, Mike Bonifer, New York Times, Obama, Afghanistan, Bonifer, NY Times, Improvisation, Gamechangers, Scenes, Mission Accomplished, Iraq, Politics News

David Brooks expresses a mystifying lack of comprehension at how the Obama team rolls.

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Pat on the Back

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Touching, Mike Bonifer, Improvisation, Gamechangers, Business, Sexual Harrassment, Networked World, Communication, Employee Relations, Work, Hr, Human Resources, Corporate Environment, Workplace, Bonifer, Martin Ett, Obsessicom, Business News

Touching is a vital element of communication, but between the computer culture and the corporate playbook, it is being systematically eliminated from the game.

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Real Food Rehab: How to Get Out Of A Salad Rut

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Healthy Eating, Salad Combinations, Salad, Chopped Salad, Farmers' Markets, Salad Dressing, Dressing a Salad, Improvisation, Making a Salad, Style News

This journey is about you in your kitchen without the safety net of a formal recipe, throwing together ingredients you might not ordinarily consider using or combining and seasoning them to your taste.

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Child Star Grows Up, Avoids Reality TV -- An Interview with Jaleel White

Nate Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Television, Webisodes, Family Matters, Road to the Altar, Jaleel White, Urkel, Web Video, Improvisation, Entertainment News

"I feel like the web series is the actor's mixtape now," said White.

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Why Ayn Rand Does Not Matter (and Viola Spolin Does)

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ayn Rand, Innovation, Viola Spolin, Sustainability, Cadillac, Gamechangers, Improvisation, Objectivism, Great Depression, World News

Viola Spolin's improvisation is a way for individuals to participate fully and authentically in the solving of problems.

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Our Long Economic Improv Show Has Just Begun

John Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Improv, Financial Crisis, Second City, Obama, Money, John Belushi, Improvisation, Monetary System, Comedy News

Our improviser-in-chief, Barack Obama, is no stranger to this principle. He's from Chicago, the home of Second City. So while Lincoln is an influence, Belushi must be, too.

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Follow the Fear

Mike Bonifer | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mike Myers, Optimism, Potential, Improvisation, Gamechangers, Usc, Business, Productivity, Networked World, Bill Murray, Ted Turner, Del Close, Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Fear, Tina Fey, Economy, Recovery, Environment, Healthy Living News

Do what makes you uneasy. Do the thing that scares you most. There, you will discover new worlds. Follow the fear. Out of it, you will grow.

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Senate Wanking Committee

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Quit all the debating about the work and get to work, to the business of getting citizens into lifeboats. A seat on a lifeboat will lead to a profoundly productive life that will benefit all of us.

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Taking the Stage for Improvisational Comedy

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jokes, Kathy Griffin, Comics, Humor, Stand-Up, Writing, Improv, Comedy Writing, Joke, Comic, New Years 2008, Times Square, Comedians, Stand-Up Comedy, Sense of Humor, Snl, Comedy, Improvisation, Entertainment News

I enrolled in a free introduction to improv course at a local theater this week to spend time working with talented performers.

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How a Team of Rivals Collaborates

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: William Gates, Clinton, Team of Rivals, Chicago, Neva Boyd, Rahm Emanuel, Obama's Cabinet, Obama, Ari Gold, Improvisation, Viola Spolin, Hyde Park, Gamechangers, Business News

A lot has been made of Obama's casting of the key roles in the new administration. There is astonishment aplenty that he's put together a team of strong personalities and former rivals.

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How Obama's Improvisation Trumps McCain's Script

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Campaign, Strategy, Mike Bonifer, Bonifer, Improvisation, Republicans, Business, Democrats, Gamechangers, Barack Obama, Networked World, Narrative, Scripting, Politics News

For any organization like the U.S. government that has a significant presence in the Networked World, improvisation is vital. Non-stop learning is the cornerstone of innovation and growth.

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Thank You, Comedians!

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

In the Age of Irony, there is no such thing as just a pig. It's what kind of joke you make about the pig that gets your point across. Its your mega-pig that counts.

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